That's different! So how do you know all this stuff about
Stingray?

I used to own a Merit 22 and have always been a fan of Merits and MORC
boats. When Merit introduced the 28 and one came to the bay I
casually followed it's racing career. The original owner took it to
the MORC Internationals a few times and had a top finish of 2nd place.
The sad thing is that Merit went out of business after only producing a
couple of the 28s. Up until that time the company had been very
successful producing 1150 25 footers and almost 700 22 footers over the
course of a few years. Rumor was ... the owner of Merit Boats had a
personal problem and spent all the profits.